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'''Maria Izquierdo Maria Izquierdo was born in October 30, 1902 in San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, México to Isabel Gutiérrez de Izquierdo mother and father Rafael Izquierdo Montoya. Also, she was raised by an aunt and grandmother who see to it that she would attend church as much as possible. The strong influence of the church and her early perception of provincial life are evident in many of her painting. Likewise, Maria Izquierdo entered the world of art at a time when the Mexican Movement was in full ascendance and as a young woman who entered into an arranged marriage at the age of fourteen, this marriage would not last long she would soon separate from her first husband in the late 1920’s. Furthermore, Maria Izquierdo died in December 02, 1955. In 1928 Maria Izquierdo enrolled in the Escuela de Artes Plásticas, and over the ensuing year her work attracted the attention of Diego Rivera who was the school’s director at the time. Under Rufino Tamayo she studied watercolor and gouache, and through Rivera’s support, she was given her first important exhibition at the Galleria de Art Moderno in Mexico in 1929. As Maria Izquierdo gained international recognition, she became the first Mexican woman to have a one-person exhibition in the United States which was held in New York in 1930. In 1944, Maria Izquierdo received a federal commission for a large-scale cycle of murals on a prominent public edifice.

References Clara Database of Women Artist retrieved from: http://clara.nmwa.org/index.php?g=entity_detail_print&entity_id=3933 Rita Pomade (May 5, 2007), Monumento Artistico De La Nacion retrieved from: http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/1075-maria-izquierdo-monumento-artistico-de-la-naci%C3%B3n'''